Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee, , 5:17:58 to 5:19:12
Details on the inter-departmental committee involving 15 agencies working on the broad definition of food security.
Topics: Food security, Government spending
Speakers: Paul Denny, Matt Lowe, Senator Ross Cadell
>> Okay. What other departments like I know progress you'll get to a lot more but what other departments are engaged at the moment. Are we talking to defense? Are we talking to home affair? Who are we talking to?
>> Um you'd be pleased to know we're talking to a large number of different departments. As you'd probably be >> um probably be aware there are a number of different portfolio interests in food. It's probably one of the most diverse kind of areas of
>> infrastructure
>> portfolio intersection that that we've ever worked on. Um so I'm yeah happy to kind of run through but
>> yeah what are the formal processes who we're talking to
>> Paul Denny assistant secretary food policy branch senator so I guess at a government level we have an interdep departmental committee committee with um I think 15 different departments and agencies are on that committee ranging from employment education home affairs defense prime minister and cabinet central agencies so um because we are taking a broad definition of food security acknowledging that yes production very important and all forms of production as as Miss Sten mentioned but also that has links it's a it's a complex issue so it has links to different social and economic outcomes as well so working very closely across um our colleagues [clears throat] across